NPR - Think you're Multitasking? Think Again
Scientists are studying the way a brain might multitask, using FMRI and observation. It appears that the brain doesn't run even mildly complicated processes in parallel but instead allocates resources to one task, then the other, then back to the one, then the other, etc. The part of the brain that modulates when tasks get switched to is the 'executive' part, located in our frontal lobes, the part that is one of the most recent evolutionary developments. We might be fooling ourselves when we think we can 'multi-task'.
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